Learn Through Quotations

“A bad past is no excuse for a bad present. ”

“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”

“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?”

“Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.”

“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. ”

“Men are no more immune from emotions than women, we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, 'feminine' ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.”

“Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.”

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”